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Mira

(22,380 posts)
Wed Jul 4, 2012, 10:38 AM Jul 2012

Michael Moore Talks About SCOTUS, Occupy, Weasel Democrats and Obama



Rob Kall says:
Michael Moore gave a talk at a fundraiser for health-care Now, a single payer advocacy organization, on Saturday, June 30th. He covered the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, Weasel Democrats, Occupy, the Obama Election...
The first few minutes of the talk were not recorded. 
The transcript picks up just after Moore had just said that in other countries, outside the USA, people have a different approach than Americans, who are all about "Me, myself and I."



Moore:
Again, somehow we've got to take care of each other especially on the big stuff like healthcare. But we are the only country that doesn't have this, when there are like so many other good things about us, as Americans, things that people in other countries like, they actually like about, they like us in many ways,But we have a few blind spots, and this is a huge one but it's is not just about healthcare, it's about that basic sense of "me". When, if you live in Canada, or France, or Sweden, or UK, or Ireland, or Ghana, it's "we", "me" Vs. "we", that is really the thing that we have to change ultimately, if we're going to get people to come with us politically on these issues. 
I wanna say a couple of words about what happened this week (Supreme Court ruling on ACA/Obamacare.) Let me start by saying this, because we're just talking amongst friends here, right? This is not on YouTube, with twenty thousand. 

Those of us on this side of the political fence sometimes have a problem with not being able to be happy, and for good reason, there's a lot of stuff, to be really sad and angry, and upset about. But it calls our judgment so that when we occasionally have a victory, we can't even celebrate the victory, because clearly we know, and we do know that Thursday is not a victory, is not a real victory, right? But if you just step back from that for a second, and realize that, for the other people that do share our political beliefs, even if they're not activists, they felt really good on Thursday, those Americans, when the Supreme Court did that, and we take on the other side, when Roberts flipped, they still have not gone to bed tonight, right now. I mean seriously, they are so depressed, and upset. If you don't believe it, you go to my twitter feed and just read all the comments beneath cause it's been non-stop 72 hour hate fest, because they're so upset that somehow, somehow we got away with  one.
 
And we go on there too, because we didn't wake up Thursday thinking anything, right, expect the worst. And some of us probably thought, Oh, they're getting rid of it,  so we can start over.


for all of it and some good photos go here:

http://www.opednews.com/populum/printer_friendly.php?content=a&id=152565
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